“I couldn’t come home from the store with something ‘frivolous’ (like a new shower curtain) without getting a lecture and guilt trip about spending money, but he would buy whatever he wanted, including big ticket …

“After my divorce from my cheating, narcisstic husband, a friend told me a slightly different take on the scorpion and the fox fable. In this story, the fox had watched earlier as the scorpion hitched …

Yesterday my 12-year-old daughter asked, “How does someone NOT know they’re being abused?” It’s a really good and thought-provoking, important question. Victims are conditioned and brainwashed by their abuser — whether a family member, a …

They usually mean well, those parents. The ones who had a reasonably mild, amicable divorce from their ex, and are able to put “differences” and “egos” aside for their children’s sake. They have adult discussions, …

TRIGGER WARNING! It’s possible a woman who believes this is being brainwashed, treated as an object and servant, and her own thoughts and needs are completely dismissed and disrespected. A man who leads his wife …